Quotes About Diversity

I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.

So when you enjoy the beats, the rock music - maybe even toned down with an orchestra - you are enjoying the spirit of the black race. And that's what I emphasize to the students.

I think it's a reflection of the music business in general, which to me seems very fragmented.

I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?

Just because I'm country music don't mean I don't have a little bit a' soul down in there somewhere.

I try to make an album that reflects what I love about country music. It's not just all about happy parties all the time. There are some sad songs.

I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music.

I want to help promote Korean music around the world.

It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.

Growing up in a multicultural family, I never really felt that I was different - even though I was from most of the kids in my school. Especially with music, I try to just approach it as an equal.

I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music.

I think I have a more wider scope for music, I have more taste for music.

From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.

I don't think radio has to be sectioned off where you listen to the music for your generation and your son listens to the music for his generation.

I get a wave of pride in America when I look back at what we've accomplished in the field of music.

I like African and avant-garde music, anything that's vaguely interesting. Hard rock I get a bit bored with because it's what I do. So anything outside of hard rock's fine by me.

I'm not really into gothic music, it's not really my type of scene but each to their own. I listen to pretty much anything.

I grew up listening to English music.

We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have.

I see myself in pop culture. I listen to pop music, I do pop things, and I'm also a scientist.

What I do isn't black music, it's just my music.

I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.

I really enjoy making different types of music than I do with the Backstreet Boys.

I was in Paris last year, where there's a great appreciation of many different aspects of African culture and of black culture. The music... the art... whatever... And I kind of went with that.